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Blustering

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Stormy 84% connected

Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy…

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Stormy 84% connected

Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy…

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Blusterous 92% connected

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Blustered imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Bluster

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Bounce verb · 78% connection

To boast; to talk big; to bluster.

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Ding verb · 78% connection

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.

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Domineer verb · 78% connection

To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious sup…

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Fanfaronade noun · 78% connection

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

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Gasconade verb · 78% connection

To boast; to brag; to bluster.

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Hector verb · 78% connection

To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.

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Huff verb · 78% connection

To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.

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Rodomontade noun · 78% connection

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.

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Roister verb · 78% connection

To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.

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Swagger verb · 78% connection

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.

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Swash verb · 78% connection

To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

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Bluster verb · 72% connection

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

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